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Dropping frames while capturing from HDCAM
hello there
i’m quite a newbie to all this hd stuff so aplogies upfront if i ask something ‘stupid’.
i’m trying to capture a 15secs clip of an hd cam tape (1080i/50) in fcp.
here are the settings i’m using:
Sequence Preset: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 50 – 10 Bit
Capture Preset: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 50 – 10 Bit
Device Control Preset: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 50
Video Playback: Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 25Hz – 10 Bit (1920 x 1080)after logging the clip it starts to capture the first few seconds but then i get an error message – to be exact – i’m getting two different kinds of messages.
locating timecode break – which definitely can’t be as the tape doesn’t have an tc break
but this message doesn’t even come up all the time – a few times i got the error message about fcp dropping frames while capturing.
after i got this tc break message i changed the Device Control setting to ‘Non-Controllable Device’ and captured the source ‘live’.
but even with that i got the ‘Dropping Frames’ error message!
it captures a few seconds of the clip (which by the way look really nice) but not more than that!
i have been spending all morning on this trying to solve it but no luck – i just don’t have any clue at all.
any help is greatly appreciated
thanks a lot in advance
fahaad
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2 Replies
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What kind of drives are you using for capture?
Kevin Monahan
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Unfortunately I don’t have a RAID to use so I’m using the internal 372GB (Serial-ATA) drive.
Here is some more info on the MAC I’m working with.CPU Type: Power Mac G5 (3.1)
Number of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2.7 GHz
L2 Cache per CPU 512 KB
Bus Speed: 1.35 GHzCould it be that without the use of a RAID Array I won’t be able to to 1080i stuff?
Would I then by any chance (with my current equipment) be able to capture 720p content?
Or will that also be impossible?
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Fahaad
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